A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.

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    1 year ago

    I want something different away from that crowd. I want a community of nice people that get along. I want to get away from Facebook, meta, and all. They just suck the soul out of everything

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    1 year ago

    This was surprisingly worth every second of my time 1st I didn’t know about this whole meta vs fediverse thing and 2nd it was highly informative and interesting to read, now I totally understand why they wanna defederate from threads

  • CapedStanker@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    People act like facebook isn’t a hellspawn of far right hatred, fascism, and general stupidity in all of it’s glorious forms. I’m just fine with my instance defederating them because Im just fine with not seeing posts from Moms for Liberty, or proud boys, or ivermectin treatments, or whatever the fuck goes on over there now a days. If I wanted to see facebook shit, I’d go to fuckin’ facebook wouldn’t I? It has little to do with corporate or not corporate.

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      1 year ago

      It has little to do with corporate or not corporate.

      It does a little. Because controversy sells better. And scandals are free marketing. So these platforms thrive off this shitty content. At a minimum they tolerate it. Maybe they even actively push it.

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        1 year ago

        Given that they default to showing an algorithmically curated feed, instead of just by most recent, a strong argument can be made that they’re actively pushing the content you see.

        But the guy above is right, it’s more about the choice of affiliation. Certain communities will want their privacy just by their nature.

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    1 year ago

    If I run my own instance, I can choose who I share with and who I don’t.

    The simple fact of the matter is that I don’t want my data to be Zucc’d, and clearly I’m not the only one who thinks that way.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly, and that’s why the response has been so negative. Every instance that federates with another stores a complete copy of the posts and comments from every federated user.

      If the majority of instances do not defederate from a Meta instance, that Instance will inevitably become the primary destination for discussion, even between and by non Meta-Instance based users, just because the communities in that Instance will be so large and active. And even if they don’t, Meta Instance will have a stored copy of every community whose Instance is federated.

      Meta will then have carte blanche to collect data on a huge collection of users from outside their own Instance.

      I acknowledge that they could get the same data by scraping the public Instances anyway, but still… Fuck all of that.